And once again I am glad that I barely use Facebook anymore. As announced by BBC, Facebook has been hacked, with cyber-thieves taking the data of 81 thousand accounts’ private messages. The hackers themselves, naturally hiding behind the mask of anonymity, have announced that they really stole the data of 120 million FB accounts, but this reveleation has been so far unconfirmed and is believed to be untrue. As for Facebook, it has let the police know of the intrusion and has taken proper measures to defend against any such attacks in the future (yeah, right). Most of the robbed ...
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Google supports artificial intelligence research
Google has just begun a worldwide AI Impact Challenge contest. Its goal is to find the best thought out and executable ideas for using the A.I in daily life. The winner of the contest will receive a 25 million dollars grant from Google. Company believes that by promoting such research it will significantly help advance the A.I research. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Apple versus gas
An atypical and quite interesting story. A helium leak took place in one of Chicago’s hospitals, probably due to a malfunction of an MRI scan device. Thankfully the leak has proven to be harmless to hospitalized as well as personnel… but not so much to their Apple devices. Most of Apple’s devices in the hospital turned off and refused to turn back on; some of them did not respond when connected to a charger; some worked but their touch screens did not respond to touch. Most of the devices begun to work properly again after a few days, although one iPhone suffered major ...
Nubia X officially. Two displays and more
ZTE has just officially presented its newest device, a Nubia X smartphone. The phone will be available for sale in China starting next week; we do not know when or if at all will it be sold in other countries. I wish ZTE fans that they will get their hands on the phone; in the meantime, lets take a look at the device’s specs:– two screens, the main selling point of the device. 6.26′ AMOLED display, 1080 x 2280 p and 5.1′ AMOLED display, 720 x 1520 p on the rear,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 CPU, 8-core, Adreno 630 GPU,– 6 or 8 GB RAM, 64, 128 or 256 GB flash ...
Apple Maps now shows indoor maps of over twenty more airports and shopping malls around the world
New indoor maps feature covers twenty shopping and aircraft areas in the US, Singapore, Denmark and Hong-Kong. The specific list of new areas covered is:– Lenox Square in the Atlanta, GA,– Phipps Plaza in the Atlanta, GA,– Perimeter Mall in Atlanta, GA,– Cumberland Mall in Atlanta, GA,– North Point Mall in Alpharetta, GA,– Mall of Georgia in Buford, GA,– The Shoppes at River Crossing in Macon, GA,– Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah, GA,– Peachtree Mall in Columbus, GA,– Mall St. Matthews in Louisville, KY,– Oxmoor Center in ...
iPhone 8 and X get performance management options
You surely remember last year’s scandal with Apple lowering its older smartphones’ performances in order to ”keep them working longer, not to make you buy new models, honest”, right? It ended with Apple lowering prices of battery changing as well as giving us a software option of deciding whether we want to lower our phones’ performance or use them to their fullest capabilities. Up until recently, there was no such option for iPhones 8 and X, but now, with the 12.1 iOS update, they have received it. Apple even states that the management feature will work better ...
Destiny 2 is free
At first I wanted to add exclamation mark to the title, but then I thought better of it – in my opinion, Destiny 2 does not deserve acclamation. If you think otherwise and have yet to buy that game then it is your lucky two weeks! Blizzard and Activision are offering Destiny 2 for free for every owner of Battle.net account. Every owner of such account can download it as a free gift. Offer ends on November 18th. Those of you who already have the game will receive a special emblem that will tell everyone around you that you bought this overpriced, mediocre shooter before it went free to ...
Energizer, or how a battery-making company is now making a smartphone
Energizer, a company known for making mobile device batteries, has decided to make its own battery and then build its own phone around it too. Their model is called E500S and is a, how to put it, budget device, with its price being mere 99 euro. For this money, Energizer will offer us a smartphone with:– 8mpx main camera with LED flash,– Android Oreo Go operating system,– 2000mAh battery,– 4G connectivity,– 5′ 800 x 480p display,– MediaTek CPU,– 1GB RAM, 8GB flash memory.The device will be released in, quote, select European ...
Honor Magic 2 is out. Price, specs and availability
Price: depending on the variant, it is 3799 juan (6 GB RAM + 128 GB), 4299 juan (8 GB RAM + 128 GB) or 4799 juan (8 GB RAM + 256 GB).Availability: release date is still unknown.Specifications:– AMOLED 6.39′ display, 2340 x 1080 p, 19:9,– HiSilicon Kirin 980 CPU, 8 cores,– Mali-G76 GPU,– 6/8GB RAM, 128/256GB flash memoery,– 16mpx + 24mpx + 16mpx main camera, 16mpx + 2mpx + 4mpx selfie shooter,– Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, NFC, LTE, dual GPS, dual SIM,– 3500 mAh battery with Magic Charge quick charging,– Android 9.0 Pie, Magic ...
Diablo Immortal, or how the devil’s in the smartphone
Diablo fans, be merry, for your prayers to the Lord of Darkness have been heard and a new Diablo game is coming soon. Well, not soon, since the release date is Blizzard’s usual when-it-is-done, but it is coming. Ehm. Anyway, Blizzard Entertainment is currently working on Diablo Immortal, an MMOARPG for gaming smartphones. That is right, folks, new Diablo game is a mobile. New may not be the completely right term for the game, though, as it will be a prequel – its story will tell us what happened (meaning, all the thousands of daemons slain and loot gained) between Diablo II and ...